Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Acts of War

Op-Center: Acts of War

Author	Jeff Rovin
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Tom Clancy's Op-Center
Genre	Techno-thriller, Spy novel
Publisher	HarperCollins
Publication date	March 1997
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	492 pp
ISBN	0-00-225450-6
OCLC	43221182
Preceded by	Games of State
Followed by	Balance of Power

Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Acts of War is a technothriller by Jeff Rovin

Plot introduction

The mobile Regional Operations Center (ROC) in Turkey investigates a dam blown up by Kurdish militants. The ROC is later taken hostage by the Kurdish militants who blew the dam.

Characters in Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Acts of War

• Mike Rodgers- General, in charge of ROC
• Paul Hood
• Lowell Coffey II- Attorney, 40, civilian assigned to ROC
• Ibrahim al-Rashid- Syrian Kurd
• Mahmoud al-Rashid- Syrian Kurd
• Dr. Phil Katzen- Biophysicist, 33, cilivan assigned to ROC
• Dr. Mary Rose Mohalley- Computer programmer, 29, civilian assigned to ROC

Major themes

• The desire of the Kurdish people for an independent state. The novel implies that the Kurds from Syria, Turkey, and Iraq work together to force a war between the government of Turkey and Syria, with the eventual goal of being granted an individual territory.
• Injustices suffered by the Kurds at the hands of the governments of the nations they live in.
• Volatility of Middle-East region, both politically and ideologically

Release details

The novel was released in 1997, prior to the attack on the World Trade Center towers and the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, but after the establishment of an Iraqi Kurdistan in Iraq from the aftermath of the Gulf War.